| Morgagni's frenum | A fold, more evident in cadavers, running from the junction of the two commissures of the ileocaecal valve on either side along the inner wall of the caecocolic junction. Synonym: frenulum valvae ileocaecalis, frenulum of Morgagni, Morgagni's frenum, Morgagni's retinaculum. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Morgagni's globules | Vesicles beneath the capsule and between lens fibres in early cataract. Synonym: Morgagni's spheres. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Morgagni's humor | A fluid found postmortem between the epithelium and the fibres of the lens, resulting from the liquefaction of a semifluid material existing there during life. Synonym: Morgagni's humor. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Morgagni's hydatid | A small fluid-filled cyst attached by a slender stalk to the fimbriated end of the uterine tube; a vestigial remnant of the embryonic mesonephric duct. Synonym: appendix vesiculosa, Morgagni's hydatid, morgagnian cyst, stalked hydatid, vesicular appendage. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Morgagni's lacuna | One of a number of little recesses in the mucous membrane of the spongy urethra into which empty the ducts of the urethral glands. Synonym: lacuna urethralis, Morgagni's lacuna. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Morgagni's liquor | A fluid found postmortem between the epithelium and the fibres of the lens, resulting from the liquefaction of a semifluid material existing there during life. Synonym: Morgagni's humor. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Morgagni's nodule | A nodule at the centre of the free border of each semilunar valve at the beginning of the pulmonary artery and aorta. Synonym: nodulus valvulae semilunaris, Arantius' nodule, Bianchi's nodule, corpus arantii, Morgagni's nodule. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Morgagni's prolapse | Chronic inflammation of Morgagni's ventricle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Morgagni's retinaculum | A fold, more evident in cadavers, running from the junction of the two commissures of the ileocaecal valve on either side along the inner wall of the caecocolic junction. Synonym: frenulum valvae ileocaecalis, frenulum of Morgagni, Morgagni's frenum, Morgagni's retinaculum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Morgagni's sinus | The grooves between the anal columns. Synonym: Morgagni's sinus. Pockets or crypts in the columnar zone of the anal canal between the anocutaneous line and the anorectal line; the sinuses give the mucosa a scalloped appearance. Synonym: sinus anales, anal crypts, Morgagni's crypts, rectal sinuses. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Morgagni's spheres | Vesicles beneath the capsule and between lens fibres in early cataract. Synonym: Morgagni's spheres. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Morgagni's syndrome | <syndrome> Hyperostosis frontalis interna in elderly women, with obesity and neuropsychiatric disorders of uncertain cause; at least sometimes familial. Synonym: metabolic craniopathy, Stewart-Morel syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Morgagni's tubercle | A small nonarticulating rod of elastic cartilage in the aryepiglottic fold anterolateral and somewhat superior to the corniculate cartilage. Synonym: cartilago cuneiformis, Morgagni's cartilage, Morgagni's tubercle, Wrisberg's cartilage. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Morgagni's valves | Delicate crescent-shaped mucosal folds that pass between the lower ends of neighboring anal columns; the small pocket thus formed is an anal sinus. Synonym: valvulae anales, Morgagni's valves. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Morgagni's ventricle | The recess in each lateral wall of the larynx between the vestibular and vocal folds and into which the layrngeal sacculus opens. Synonym: ventriculus laryngis, laryngeal sinus, Morgagni's sinus, Morgagni's ventricle, sinus laryngeus. (05 Mar 2000) |